Eva Longoria Calls Out Hollywood’s Double Standards For ‘White Male’ Directors Who Get Hired After Big-Budget Flops: ‘I Get One At-Bat’
etcanada.comEva Longoria has shifting her focus to behind the camera, utilizing the experience she’s gained directing episode television for her feature directorial debut with “Flamin’ Hot”.
Telling the true story of how Mexican-American Frito-Lay janitor Richard Montañez made snack food history by drawing upon his cultural heritage for the invention of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
Longoria recently spoked at the Kering Women in Motion talk during the 2023 edition of the Cannes Film Festival, where she put Hollywood on blast for the doors she’s had to kick in as a Latina female with aspirations to direct. READ MORE: Eva Longoria’s Directorial Debut ‘Flamin’ Hot’ Marks First Film To Release Simultaneously On Two Major Streaming Platforms “We don’t get a lot of bites at the apple,” Longoria said of Latina directors, as reported by Variety. “My movie wasn’t low budget by any means — it wasn’t $100 million, but it wasn’t $2 million.
When was the last Latina-directed studio film? It was like 20 years ago. We can’t get a movie every 20 years,” she continued. “The problem is if this movie fails, people go, ‘Oh Latino stories don’t work… female directors really don’t cut it,'” she added. “We don’t get a lot of at-bats.
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